Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:59:28 04/04/01
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On April 04, 2001 at 07:40:13, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >On April 04, 2001 at 06:36:47, Daniel Chancey wrote: > >>The CM program is not weak but it's not a good anti-fritz program. Also the >>personality used is slightly inferior. CM has a small book, no book >>learning, no tablebases. Much of Chessmaster was focused to help human players >>inprove their game. When the best Chessmaster personality is found, a >>match between Deep Fritz under same conditions is necessary. >> >>Castle2000 > >Why all these excuses as to why CM8 plays poorly, you are right it was intended >to be a learning program and it does a heck of a job at just that, but then >again it takes away from the playing strenght, which becomes more and more >obvious. The idea of testing a program in the first place is to test the >strenght of a prog, and you dont see Deep Fritz needing anti CM8, CT14, GT2, >Nimzo8 etc in order to be a dominating factor in the world of cpu chess! >When i tested Gandalf against CM8 gandalf absolutly crushed CM8, so did >Crafty1714, yace and wbnimzo2000b, CM8 simply failed to win a tournament against >any of the above mentioned, this was at long tounament time controls with a >litlle fischer time added to compensate for CM8's poor handling of time. >On my T-bird 1.3ghz 512 ram. >If you manage to find a setting that will match the play of Deep Fritz (which i >doubt) or any other top prog, then it would suggest that CM8 play very >unbalanced if it needs a different setting for each top program. >If CM9 will support book.lrn, tb's etc. have a better book and is bugfree to the >point where it pays to buy the prog, then i think it might be up there with the >other progs! > >Regards >Jonas Jonas, When you did these tests, did you have the patched version? Since the patch was released, nobody has complained about "CM8's poor handling of time". jm
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